After last night’s Oscars, Glenn Close holds onto her title as the living actor, male or female, with the most Oscar nominations without a win. Her score is now 0 for 7. Whomp, whomp.
In a surprise upset, Olivia Coleman bested Close for Best Actress for her role in The Favourite. And while Coleman gave an incredibly gracious speech, in which she even acknowledged she wanted Close to win over her, fans were still pissed. And understandably so.
71-year-old Close has been making movies for 45 years. 45 years! What more must the woman do for the Academy to finally give her the recognition she deserves?
And now, the tweets…
How about we take this to the next level?
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So Close. #glennclose #hillaryclinton #thewife #oscars #oliviacolman #gay #lgbtq #academyawards #thefavourite #shocker #mondaymood pic.twitter.com/OZr6YuIrp0
— Matt Smith McCormick (@NaughtyOrNiche) February 25, 2019
I'm in a room with a bunch of gay men and the energy just got TENSE because Glenn Close didn't win
— alex kliner (@akliner) February 25, 2019
How am I supposed to function today knowing that Glenn Close still doesn’t have an Oscar? #Oscars pic.twitter.com/NHD08NvpQU
— Rob (@RealityRobbed) February 25, 2019
Technically, G*ga is an academy award winner while Glenn Close still isn't. I mean, what in the actual fuck. #OSCARS
— Lonely Gay (@Sparta) February 25, 2019
The face says it all.
Nobody has suffered more #Oscars heartbreak than Glenn Close has… pic.twitter.com/4UU5lyje7L
— Lights, Camera, Pod (@LightsCameraPod) February 25, 2019
Glenn Close took that like a total pro, too. Now someone make a better movie for her.
— Joe Reid (@joereid) February 25, 2019
Glenn Close signing on to her next movie role pic.twitter.com/hD9kr8FSoh
— frank costa (@feistyfrank) February 25, 2019
The gay screams heard around the world when Glenn Close didn’t win
— Eric. (@ericthulhu) February 25, 2019
Glenn Close pictured later tonight. ROBBED! #Oscars pic.twitter.com/19YuliJr8J
— George Stark (@GeorgeStark_) February 25, 2019
Ryan Murphy waiting with a net for Glenn Close
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) February 25, 2019
Glenn Close tonight. pic.twitter.com/oJjSiiCjEW
— Ever Blanco (@lucyskydiamond8) February 25, 2019
"Let's fucking do this." – Glenn Close on the first day on filming the SUNSET BOULEVARD film musical adaptation
— Jorge Molina (@colormejorge) February 25, 2019
Someone is very upset about Glenn Close not winning ?? pic.twitter.com/UiM7Ptcbcu
— molly ? (@hardnougat) February 25, 2019
I hope Shangela took Glenn Close aside tonight and let her know, hey sometimes there’s a special kind of power in being the one who was “robbed.” Look at Shangela! She was in a Star is Born! Glenn will be alright.
— Joel Kim Booster (@ihatejoelkim) February 25, 2019
You, ignorant: Glenn Close isn’t a gay icon
Me, enlightened: she is The High Femme Root pic.twitter.com/4hQhtoTsUj
— Sloane Jett (@stonefruitblues) February 24, 2019
Glenn Close’s phone BUZZES. She checks, the applause around her swelling.
UNKNOWN
Is the hit still on?GLENN
Not tonight. Gaga lives
to see another day.— the gay brother (@Neil_McNeil) February 25, 2019
broadshoulder
This gay didn’t scream. I pushed for Olivia Coleman
Brexit
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ModeI
Glenn Close is better!
Brian
Was she robbed though? I haven’t seen either movie, but I definitely got the impression that Glenn was the favorite because of her previous nominations, not because of her performance.
@HarryB
It seems to be like the fame of Leonardo DiCaprio. But he finally got it.
OzJosh
I have seen both movies. On purely acting terms Close unquestionably gave the more accomplished performance – subtle, nuanced and finely calibrated. It was also a much more demanding part, and Close pretty much anchored the entire film with her performance. Colman was also very good in The Favourite, but the role was, for the most part, broad comedy and one predisposed to win audience sympathy in a way that Close’s was not. But Academy Awards only go to the most deserving winners by sheer accident, since other factors generally play a bigger part. Elizabeth Taylor essentially won her first Oscar for surviving pneumonia and the Academy celebrated her not dying. Numerous other winners only got lucky because the better nominees split the vote right down the middle, sometimes leaving the least deserving with the statuette. This year the Academy seemed much more predisposed toward performances in bold, flashy films that were successful at the box office, and not smaller, independent films aimed at niche audiences. So Colman got lucky.
Stenar
Yes, exactly. Her performance in The Wife was just MEH.
o.codone
@ OzJosh. You work at Staples UK as a cashier on the high street and still somehow get a moment to comment, grandiosely, as follows: “Close unquestionably gave the more accomplished performance – subtle, nuanced and finely calibrated”. Wow. Brilliant. In the future could you please leave-off the pretentious spelling, eg., “The Favourite”. Just stick to scanning notebooks and pens and being otherwise completely un-noticed by the rest of the world’s 7 billion people. We like it that way.
Brian
Hey doucheb@g, you may want to look up the title of the movie Olivia Colman won for. Here’s a hint, it wasn’t The Favorite.
Blackceo
I will say that it isn’t as though Olivia Coleman was undeserving. She was magnificent in The Favourite. Glenn Close was equally fabulous in her role in The Wife, although the film overall was not buzzed about. Was definitely a shocker since Glenn had won everything leading up, except the BAFTA. She’s the Susan Lucci of films. I still hope there is another bad ass script left for her that she can knock out of the park to get her Oscar. Sunset Boulevard may be it.
1898
are these the same gays who wanted Glenn Close’s head on a platter when she beat Lady Gaga for whatever that other award was?
Stenar
The older gays wanted Close. The younger gays wanted Gaga.
Billy Budd
Glenn close is a legend, an icon, a cinema goddess. She must, absolutely must get an oscar before she dies.
james7
I really HATED the movie THE WIFE. Yet another film about how awful men are to poor neglected, unappreciated women…..full time saints and martyrs, and then those supporting Ms. Close acting like; “well, it’s her turn.” Also hated ROMA for the same reasons. Can’t wait to go see A STAR IS BORN for the 5th time. Bradley and Sam Elliot were the ones who were robbed.
OzJosh
Which you can judge without having seen the film?!
pavel20
I’ve suspected this response is one of the reasons she may have lost. There are quite a few older men in the Academy, who probably didn’t appreciate the thematic elements of The Wife. For my part, I have not seen many as nuanced and powerful a performance, male or female, as this one. People are saying she “chewed the scenery” when in actuality the performance was very understated for a significant majority of the film. It was this fact that made a slow building (and justified) rage all the more affecting. What I was most impressed by was that she was able to express more without saying a word than many actors can accomplish in a film full of dialogue. I will always think it is a shame that a performance like this one was not recognized by the Academy, whether it was by someone who was a first time nominee or someone who has as many nominations as Ms. Close over the course of a fine and distinguished career.
DCguy
Translation, you hate anything that centered on women. We got it.
Greg
You can’t be robbed of something you didn’t have.
vaguy
Close is a fantastic actress but she has had the misfortune to be competing with equally talented women who had better roles and better writers and knew what to do with them. Coleman was brilliant as Queen Anne, giving Anne a realistically believable humanity. Coleman deserved to win.
Sotzume
The Wife was a horrid film and Glenn Close chewed the scenery until it was paper mâché …..she didn’t deserve the win. Olivia Coleman deserved it this year.
Stenar
AMEN! Someone with some sense.
swamp bubble
who’s betting that none of the people saying she was robbed on Twitter have actually seen the wife.
Stenar
THIS!
Daggerman
yes frustrating but in a seamless world like this she must obviously bear the brunt of showbiz stardom……..!
PoetDaddy
I was surprised and delighted that Olivia Colman won the Best Actress Oscar. I’ve been a fan for years and have always found her work to be unflinchingly superb. No one is “robbed” of an Oscar. You either win one or you don’t. It matters, as these things go, if your performance is in a movie few have seen or many have seen, whether the film is a good one or not. Close isn’t dead yet. She still has time. Meanwhile she’s won a slew of awards and is greatly esteemed in the industry. I was actually more upset that she didn’t win for Garp.
satchbee
Lots of super competition in this category. – plus, Glenn has some esteemed company in this particular pantheon (mostly deceased, but I’m sure their unhappiness was as great as hers): Peter O’Toole (8 noms, no wins); Richard Burton (7 noms, no wins); Deborah Kerr, Thelma Ritter and Amy Adams (6 noms, no wins); then over on TV we have the champ: Angela Lansbury (17 Emmy noms, no wins).
Tombear
At the “gay Super Bowl party” we attended many of the guys were totally wrecked because Close lost.
Tony1129
Some of you queens get on damn my nerves, enough already with Glenn Close and Gaga. Glenn has a ton of money to drown her sorrows on, she’s good!
Dan ONeill
Glenn Close is one of the most brilliant actors in cinema history.The fact that she hasn’t won an Oscar yet is a disgrace.The idea that an army of mediocrities have won this award,but this legend has been denied is revolting.Even Olivia Coleman was ashamed to accept the Oscar.She knew a major injustice had taken place.What does the Academy have against this fabulous icon?
okiloki
Glenn Close was simply amazing in the Wife and, while the Favorite was a superior film(and should have won best film), Close was able to dominate the screen the entire movie even when she was doing seemingly mundane things like answering the phone or drinking a beer. I don’t think people appreciate just how remarkable that quality is.
o.codone
Close and Hillary both, … it was theirs to lose. And they did. Hahahaaha.
just me
seriously? who gives a flying F*** about who won the oscars and who didn’t? it’s all a huge joke and based on politics and power plays.
djmcgamester
When does the “downvote” for bad articles start?
broadshoulder
I’ve been following Coleman since “Peep Show”
strap2900
She won all the other awards which are mostly truly about the acting, the Oscars, not so much.
Yooper
Neither did Barbara Stanwyck, Glenn is in good company.
Ashke113
No one was robbed, the Oscar went to the better actress. The gays always get their collective panties in a bunch over someone being robbed. Get over it the award has already been given to the better actress and there’s nothing any amount of gay screeching will do.
DCguy
From the clips I’ve seen of the wife (No, I didn’t see it), Close looked like she was giving a performance similar to others she has already given. Not to say it wasn’t good, but it didn’t seem like a stretch, I may change my mind if I see the entire movie, but that was the impression I got.
Coleman was a more outrageous performance, but her performance switched from vulnerability, outrage, a bit of scary sociaopathic behavior and she unbalanced every scene where she appeared in an interesting or uncomfortable way. Close may deserve an Oscar, but I’m a little burned out on people not being given them when they deserve them, but instead getting them because people thing “It’s their time”.